How to format your references using the Global Food Security citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Global Food Security. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Bregman, J.N., 2002. Cosmology. The cosmic web of baryons. Science 298, 72–73.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin, T.J., Mundy, G.R., 2007. Bone metastasis: can osteoclasts be excluded? Nature 445, E19; discussion E19-20.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kilner, R.M., Madden, J.R., Hauber, M.E., 2004. Brood parasitic cowbird nestlings use host young to procure resources. Science 305, 877–879.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Garvin, J., Buick, R., Anbar, A.D., Arnold, G.L., Kaufman, A.J., 2009. Isotopic evidence for an aerobic nitrogen cycle in the latest Archean. Science 323, 1045–1048.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

McBain, G.D., 2012. Theory of Lift. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Arezes, P. (Ed.), 2016. Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors: Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Safety Management and Human Factors , July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Belsky, J., 2011. The Determinants of Parenting in GxE Perspective: A Case of Differential Susceptibility?, in: Booth, A., McHale, S.M., Landale, N.S. (Eds.), Biosocial Foundations of Family Processes, National Symposium on Family Issues. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 61–68.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Global Food Security.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Neanderthals Survived Early Contact With Humans [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/neanderthals-survived-early-contact-humans/ (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 2007. Freight Railroads: Electronic Supplement on Rates and Other Industry Trends, 1985-2005 (GAO-07-292SP), an E-supplement to GAO-07-291R (No. GAO-07-292SP). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Harris, A.E., 2017. A quantitative study of the impact of CFO and auditor turnover on internal control weaknesses (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Dargis, M., Poniewozik, J., 2017. Not Exactly Your Simple Sequel. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Bregman, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bregman, 2002; Martin and Mundy, 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Martin and Mundy, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Garvin et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Food Security
Abbreviation	Glob. Food Sec.
ISSN (print)	2211-9124
Scope	Food Science Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Ecology Safety Research